Example sentences of "[conj] he [be] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other worker was taken by air ambulance to Hereford General Hospital , where he 's in intensive care . |
| 2 | I appeal to the Minister : the man should not be allowed to return to his unit ; he should remain where he is at this moment . |
| 3 | He had had assurance from Jesus , that although he was dying , although he was in physical torment and pain , going through one of most excruciating , awful deaths imaginable ! |
| 4 | He became Minister for the Arts in July 1990 and although he was in this post only a few months , he made a distinct mark . |
| 5 | Now that he 's on short time he 's doing more round the house . |
| 6 | So I could go on at great length , colleagues , to tell you that he 's on this committee and that committee well er and that would take me a good half hour because he 's , he 's on , he 's involved in everything in everything in the Party in the union erm , and his commitment is absolutely second to none . |
| 7 | Palace 's former England forward struck a glorious goal to serve Graham Taylor notice that he 's worth another try . |
| 8 | But it does n't follow that he 's in greater trouble now because |
| 9 | And I can tell from a half-hour 's converse with him that he 's in good hands . |
| 10 | It 's thanks to you that he 's in this mess right now . |
| 11 | ‘ It is ordered that in the interim and an injunction is hereby granted ordering that in the events ( i ) that the medical condition of [ J. ] changes in such a way that his life is threatened but is capable of being prolonged by the application to him of intensive therapeutic measures including artificial ventilation , and ( ii ) that he is at that time in the care of the … |
| 12 | ‘ When you read his report , you will see that he is of Russian descent . |
| 13 | ‘ Whenever you speak to me of this Harry of yours , your face and , indeed , your voice reveal that he is of special importance to you . |
| 14 | There are , therefore , two key features : first , that the patient is of an age the law regards as proper , and second , that he is of sound mind . |
| 15 | Sir : Roy Hattersley says that he is against electoral reform as it would stop the Labour Party winning an overall majority . |
| 16 | Although his condition is in one sense hopeless , in that he will not recover , it is not hopeless in the sense that he is in imminent danger of dying . |
| 17 | A possible clue to this unusual verbal spate of self-revelation , which caused me some surprise , was , as we now know , that he was at that time engaged in writing The Family Reunion . |
| 18 | I ca n't say we really got to talk properly until we played tennis together at Kyalami in 1976 , just before he took up his Lotus drive , but it was evident from the first that he was of sound mind and body and somehow radically different from any other driver I 've met before or since , and if I were pressed to say why that is so , it has to be because of his utter imperturbability . |
| 19 | Hayling simply rang him up , in the way that he was to cold-call others , asked for his help , and got it . |
| 20 | In those days a man was allocated duties , it is true they tried to arrange that he was on early spread , medium or late duties but it did n't always work out because of holidays , sickness or that but erm there were no restriction on hours . |
| 21 | He observed from the way peter Yeo gathered himself and sat up straight that he was on familiar territory , and understood further that the general patter was well rehearsed . |
| 22 | This man would forget the purpose of his visit , at least for a brief spell , and the fact that he was on official business , and drink tea and eat a good meal in the prosecutor 's house , crack jokes and make amiable conversation , and sleep through the heat of the day . |
| 23 | Edward knew that he was on treacherous ground . |
| 24 | Although he had four years of orgies with Debbie Harry and Joan Jett at the paper between 1978 and '82 , he never kidded himself that he was on first-name terms with pop . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't think you should tell Foucard about Tim , even if you 're sure yourself that he was with Sabine Jourdain . |
| 26 | All four men 's evidence agreed that the assailant was wearing blue jeans and a black T-shirt with the word ‘ authentic ’ written on it in white lettering , and that he was between five foot eight and five foot ten inches tall . |
| 27 | He also made it clear that he was against black boycotts organized around the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico , at which Thommie Smith and John Carlos demonstrated on the victory rostrum with a gloved black power salute . |
| 28 | The Prime Minister told parliament that he was against freezing savings accounts or monetary reform which would devalue the internal rouble and cut the value of individuals ' savings . |
| 29 | And the fellow who told her that he was from another planet . |
| 30 | McLaren boss Teddy Mayer as much as admitted at the end of 1975 that he thought Emerson wanted to move — or that he was in personal trouble of one kind and another — but the official news reached Hunt before it got to the team , and got to Hunt through Domingos Piedade , an eccentric figure close to the cheerful groupie Googie Zanon , a wealthy ( textiles ) Italian aristocrat whose support has been crucial to many drivers at critical points in their career , then ‘ manager ’ to Emerson and now to Ayrton Senna — a fringe career from which Domingos , hugely personable , but also often more a talker than a doer , has made a more than reasonable living . |